Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
Protecting the public-lands ranchers is a top priority of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its affiliates, even if it means leading the young folks astray.
Now is a great time to be in the millstone business.
They knew it was coming. They’ve been involved in it from the beginning.
What do you call it when your political allies submit legislation that orders the government to procure services you provide?
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The co-chair of the House Pesticide Caucus has reintroduced a bill that would stop the roundups but not the removals according to a report by KLAS News.
Predictably, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and fierce opponent of principal use, endorsed it.
Originally known as the Save a Horse, Hire a Cowboy Act, the bill supports three tenets of rangeland management, forcing a change in methods but not the goals.
It will likely go nowhere in a Republican-controlled Congress.
Why should the Virginia Range get all the glory?
The advocates have a better way to get rid of wild horses.
Why not use it to zero-out the HMA?
The ranchers will need to be patient but the advocates will be so relieved they’ll probably offer to do it for free.
They could keep the helicopters on the ground and eradicate the herd with PZP.
The advocates might offer to do it for free.
Mass sterilization, the inevitable result of humane population reduction, is key to wild horse conservation.
If we get rid of them they can stay.
What if they decided to get rid of the herd with PZP?
A sigh of relief would go up from the advocates.
They might offer to do it for free.
The ranchers would have to be patient.
But the horses would be gone for good, a result that can’t be achieved with helicopters.
Their method is flawed and they know it.
You cannot use PZP for population reduction without sterilizing the mares, yet they want it to become the standard for herd management.
How stupid do you have to be to accept this as wild horse conservation?
A. Proceedings in the Senate.
B. Pesticides on the range.
A. Politicians wrangling over the language in a bill.
B. Bitter and unsuccessful women poisoning the mares with PZP.
Those who sound the alarm about wild horses are often among their worst enemies.
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The last-minute change leaves one topic for the ‘Call of the Wild’ event on July 1.
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Go off script. Ask for something that helps wild horses stay on public lands.
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Yes, they have a pesticide caucus but they get their information from the advocates, who have sensationalized language in current legislation regarding slaughter—referring to it as a bullet to the head of wild horses—and the sale of public lands, without providing screen images or links to the offending material.
Meanwhile, they spend their days on the range, shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts.
The advocates, not your elected representatives, are a clear and present danger to America’s wild horses.
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Western Horse Watchers believes no action is necessary.
Those who organize these appeals are often among the most gullible and least informed about wild horses and burros.
If you’re thinking about HMAPs, you’re right, but there are other ways the advocates tell you they want the ranchers to win.
Forage allocations for wild horses and livestock are specified in resource management plans, sometimes referred to as land-use plans.
The plans are usually enforced by motorized removal.
If horses are consuming 40% of the authorized forage when the plan gives them 20%, a roundup is ordered to protect the ranchers.
The advocates don’t like roundups but concur with the idea of resource enforcement.
Fertility control is a better way of ensuring the ranchers receive 80% of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses, as specified in the RMPs.
There are no low-flying helicopters and no roping of fatigued animals.
In its extreme form there are no horses—exactly what the ranchers want.
As usual, the news release does not include a map of the project area or link to the NEPA analysis.
Permit holders, among others, were urged to be aware of treatment operations.
Ironically, the agency that routinely ignored the 2017 labeling amendment for GonaCon Equine, which extended the interval between primer and booster from 30 days to 90 days, said in the announcement that “Strict adherence to the pesticide label restrictions and instructions is followed as required by law.”
Imagine having a net worth of several million dollars and being eligible for food stamps.
That’s permitted grazing.
The ranchers pay almost nothing for the forage they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.
And it’s a lifestyle, not temporary public assistance.
What did they know and when did they know it?
You cannot use the Montana Solution to reduce a herd from 450 to 200 without sterilizing the mares.
You need a diploma from the Billings School of PZP Darting to apply it.
To claim ignorance implies gross negligence of the instructors.
Will the guilty parties please step forward?
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He’s one of the greatest proponents of the herd according to a story posted yesterday by the Powell Tribune.
The 2025 population dataset put the size at 149 and he’s already darted 45, which may be close to 100% of the breeding-age mares. Any left for the advocates?
His efforts are not mentioned at their darting page.
The HMA is a curated horse exhibit. There’s nothing natural about it.
All of this to prop up a failed industry, referred to in the article as the folks with stock.
